The Meghalaya Police have filed its chargesheet against CMJ
University – a private university in Meghalaya – with its ‘chancellor’
Chandra Mohan Jha, his wife I R Jha, two sons Govind Jha and Gopal Jha
figuring among the eleven persons named in it. The university, which has
since been dissolved, had landed in a scam after it was found awarding
over 400 PhDs in one year.

The chargesheet which runs into more than 100 pages, was submitted to
the Chief Judicial Magistrate on Friday by East Khasi Hills district SP
Spill Thamar who as Additional SP (CID) two years ago was also
appointed the investigating officer. The police also submitted a
jeep-load of documents to the CJM’s Court, which included several
hundred PhD theses.

Irregularities in the controversial university incidentally was
unearthed by former IPS officer RS Mooshahary, who as then Meghalaya
governor was also Visitor to the private university. It was Mooshahary
who had also filed an FIR with the police against the CMJ University and
its ‘chancellor’ CM Jha, on April 26, 2013 under Sections 420, 406,
466, 34, 109, 120 B and 467 of the Indian Penal Code. The private
university had in 2012-13 alone awarded PhD degrees to 434 persons who
were mostly college teachers working in different states across the
country.

CM Jha, who hails from Bihar, had landed in Shillong in the early
1980s to start career as a petty supplier of stationery items to
different government departments. While reports attribute his
rags-to-riches story to blessings he received from some prominent
politicians, Jha, arrested several times in several cases including
fraud and forgery, had in 2014 also contested as an independent
candidate from Jhanjharia in Bihar after making a futile attempt to get a
BJP ticket.